{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Cleyera japonica2.jpg | image_caption = ''Cleyera japonica'' | taxon = Cleyera | authority = Thunb. | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = See text }}
'''''Cleyera''''' is a plant genus consisting of 21 species<ref name="plantlist">The Plant List (2013). ''Cleyera''. Version 1.1. Published on the Internet; http://www.theplantlist.org/ Accessed 24 August 2020. [http://www.theplantlist.org/1.1/browse/A/Pentaphylacaceae/Cleyera/]</ref> of tender, evergreen shrubs to small trees, mostly native to Mexico and Central America, and one from Eastern Asia. In the APG III system it is placed in the family Pentaphylacaceae.<ref>{{Citation |last=Stevens |first=P.F. |title=Angiosperm Phylogeny Website |url=https://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/ |accessdate=2014-09-18 }}</ref>
The botanical name is derived from Andrew Cleyer, a Dutch physician of the seventeenth century. The plants are grown for specimen accent hedges or mixed border landscapes. Though they are slow-growing, they can eventually reach 6–10 ft (1.8-3m). The plants grow densely upright with low spreading-branch habit, round-shaped form, and can be kept compact by occasionally tip-cutting. Leaves are glossy, oval-shaped, 6–10 cm long with dark-green and bronze-red to burgundy tinted young leaves. Very fragrant small creamy white to pale yellow flowers bloom in early summer with petals free or scarcely coalesced. The pollen can cause mild allergy symptoms. Fruits are spherical, greenish yellow, turning red to black.
==Species== ; Accepted species:<ref name = plantlist/> * ''Cleyera albopunctata'' <small>(Griseb.) Krug & Urb.</small> * ''Cleyera bolleana'' <small>(O.C.Schmidt) Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera cernua'' <small>(Tul.) Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera costaricensis'' <small>Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera cuspidata'' <small>H.T.Chang & S.H.Shi</small> * ''Cleyera ekmanii'' <small>(O.C.Schmidt) Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera incornuta'' <small>Y.C.Wu</small> * ''Cleyera integrifolia'' <small>(Benth.) Choisy</small> * ''Cleyera japonica'' <small>Thunb.</small> (syn. ''Cleyera ochnacea'') sakaki * ''Cleyera longicarpa'' <small>(Yamam.) L.K. Ling</small> * ''Cleyera matudai'' <small>Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera neibensis'' <small>Alain</small> * ''Cleyera nimanimae'' <small>(Tul.) Krug & Urb.</small> * ''Cleyera obovata'' <small>H.T.Chang</small> * ''Cleyera obscurinervia'' <small>(Merr. & Chun) H.T.Chang</small> * ''Cleyera orbicularis'' <small>Alain</small> * ''Cleyera pachyphylla'' <small>Chun ex H.T.Chang</small> * ''Cleyera panamensis'' <small>(Standl.) Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera revoluta'' <small>Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera serrulata'' <small>Choisy</small> * ''Cleyera skutchii'' <small>Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera tacanensis'' <small>Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera ternstroemioides'' <small>(O.C.Schmidt) Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera theoides'' <small>(Sw.) Choisy</small> * ''Cleyera vaccinioides'' <small>(O.C.Schmidt) Kobuski</small> * ''Cleyera velutina'' <small>B.M.Barthol.</small> * ''Cleyera yangchunensis'' <small>L.K.Ling</small>
; Unresolved species:<ref name = plantlist/> * ''Cleyera dubia'' <small>Champ. ex Benth.</small> * ''Cleyera fragrans'' <small>Champ. ex Benth.</small> * ''Cleyera gymnanthera'' <small>Wight & Arn.</small> * ''Cleyera millettii'' <small>Hook. & Arn.</small> * ''Cleyera pentapetala'' <small>Spreng.</small>
; Names brought to synonymy: * ''Cleyera elegans'', a synonym for ''Freziera undulata''
==References== {{Commons category}} {{Reflist}} *[https://www.homolaicus.com/scienza/erbario/utility/botanica_sistematica/hypertext/0360.htm#000000 Botanica Sistematica] *[https://www.backyardgardener.com/plantname/pda_d0a3.html]
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Category:Pentaphylacaceae Category:Ericales genera
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